Director

Bill Watterson

Acting

Career Snapshot

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Directed credits

Emerging

Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

2.6

Moderate attention

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 2

TMDB ID: 1141000

IMDb ID: nm1826889

Known for: Acting

Born: August 20, 1973

Age: 52

Place of birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2008 - 2025

Years active: 18

Average TMDB rating: 6.63

Also known as

William Watterson

Frequent jobs

Director (1)Producer (1)

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Biography

Watterson’s work has been called “wildly inventive” (Hollywood Reporter), “dazzlingly original” (Empire), and “fresh and inventive” (Rotten Tomatoes). He is an ex-rocker whose feature film directorial debut, the practical effects-driven fantasy Dave Made A Maze, won the Audience Award at its World Premiere at Slamdance. The film has gone on to win over 20 Audience and Jury Prizes, a Saturn Award, is distributed in over 40 countries, and is Certified Fresh. Known for his tactile world-building and his ability to orchestrate unique tonal mash-ups, he has directed music videos, commercials, children’s content, and lots of cool stuff you can’t watch because NDA’s. He is currently working with Village Roadshow and The Jim Henson Company on an original project and yes, it has monsters and puppets and robots and stuff.

Movies